Ciena®
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that
proxy materials for its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time are now available
via the Internet. In addition to providing proxy materials online, this
year's Annual Meeting will be Ciena's first completely virtual meeting
of stockholders to be webcast live over the Internet at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ciena.
Ciena believes that its use of the Internet to host its meeting and
facilitate distribution of materials enables expanded stockholder
participation, expedites receipt of proxy materials and reduces the cost
and environmental impact of the company's Annual Meeting.

Ciena stockholders as of the January 22, 2013 record date for the Annual
Meeting will be mailed a "Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy
Materials" and will be entitled to attend, vote and submit questions at
the Annual Meeting by entering the 12-digit control number included in
their notice. The notice will also include instructions for accessing
Ciena's proxy materials online or requesting paper copies of the
materials. Ciena stockholders not entitled to vote at this year's Annual
Meeting and other interested persons may listen to the live webcast of
the 2013 Annual Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ciena
and can view Ciena's 2012 Annual Report and proxy statement on the
company's website at: http://investor.ciena.com/annuals-proxy.cfm.

About Ciena

Ciena is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide
to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally
change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep
expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software
automation to deliver solutions in alignment with OPn, its
approach for building open next-generation networks. We enable a
high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
virtualized environment. We routinely post recent news, financial
results and other important announcements and information about Ciena on
our website. For more information, visit www.ciena.com.